Improvement in fire-kindlers



UNI ED STATES PATENT OrFIoE.

OORNELIA E. IMLAY, or BRooKLYn, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF HER RIGHT TO SMITH A. PADDOCK, OF WILLIAMSBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-KINDLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,759, dated October 1, 1872.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, (JORNELIA E. IMLAY, of Brookl'yn,in the county of Kings and the State of New York, have in vented an Improved Fire Lighter or Kindler, of which the following is p a specification:

The nature of myinvention consists of a firelighter or kindler, made of a piece or pieces of cork fastened together, (if more than one piece of cork is used,) which have first been dipped .in a liquid hydrocarbon or aresinous substance and afterward in wdry sawdust, the object of the invention being to produce a cheap and highly inflammable compound for the purpose of kindling a wood or coal fire.

To prepare the compound take a piece or pieces of cork, and if more than one piece is to be used fasten them; together into a bundle of a size most convenient for use; then take a solid hydrocarbon, such as 'asphaltum or resin; place itin an iron vessel and heat the same until the contents have become perfectly liquid; stir from one to three per cent. of finely-- pulverized chlorate of potash into it; then dip the cork into the molten substance; and when may be used.

I claim as my invention- A compound for kindling purposes, consisting of cork coated with two layers, the first or lower one consistingof a mixture of asph altum, resin, and chlorate of potash, or, in lieu thereof, pitch or any resinous substance, or'napthaline, with chlorate of potash, the upper or outside one forming a layer of sawdust, substantially as described.

Mns. GORNELIA E. IMLAY. Witnesses:

SMITH A. PADDOOK, PETER RIGLER. 

